The colour patterns of cypraeid gastropods

Lethaia

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-27

  Savazzi, Enrico ^a  

^a Department of Geosciences ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Computer modelling; Cypraeacea; Cypraeidae; Gastropoda; Morphogenesis; Self organization; Shell colour; Shell sculpture

Indexed keywords

CYPRAEIDAE; CYPRAEOIDEA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0006152079     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1998.tb00484.x     Document Type: Article

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